Tag Archives: social networking

10 Rules for Small Business and Social Networks

Jun
16
2009

Does small business really need online social media.   Is it really going to provide those instant  benefits that the media and some experts are raving about.

Online Social networkers (or media)  is now all the rave. It’s the new kid on the block, the dream that some many people in business are now chasing as the quick fix.  Now I have seen this wave of blind business hysteria all before, it’s nothing new.

Reasons for a Private Twitter Stream

May
5
2009

People have often asked me why is your twitter stream is set to private.   Why don’t you just open it up to the rest of the world like everyone else does.  Don’t you get this social networking thing.  Why are you just trying to keep things private, when if you have a footprint on the web it’s just a little pointless.

Well yes there are lots if good reasons to open up a twitter stream to the public, here are a few:

  • It’s really easy for people to decide to connect with you if they can read your previous tweets.

Freelancers Coffee

May
3
2009

Pen Cafe

Now Perth can be busy place, with lots of professional networking events every month, seems that there are even more now with this financial hiccup, as people scramble for those networking contacts.

Funny thing is that most of the new ones  now want to sell me something or get me to join some exclusive networking group that will bring me riches and world domination by afternoon teatime.  All I have to do is just sign over a few thousand dollars a year and  feed thew group them all my business contacts for good measure.   Now I don’t know about you but the only bugger getting rich here is the person that set that scheme up in the first place.  Pyramid anyone, just without money.

Introduction to Twitter Mainstreaming

Mar
17
2009

Well Twitter is mainstreaming, as we all know, every man, woman and child it appears wants to be on Twitter.  They are all trying to work out what this latest crazy is all about. It’s been an interesting road with Twitter from the early days in late 2006.

For a while there it really did look like Twitter wasn’t going to make it over the fail whale. But here we are on the tail end of another South by South West conference  and Twitter isn’t missing a beat.